3-31 Purple Dead Nettle

 3-31

Purple Dead Nettle is up and flowering. Two close relatives, S
potted Dead Nettle and Yellow Henbit, AKA Yellow Archangel, can also be found in the area.

John

3-29 Early Saxifrage

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In sun bathed ledges Early Saxifrage is flowering.

John

3-28 Hairy Bittercress

 3-28

Hairy Bittercress is up and flowering. This bittercress is a rare recent arrival to the state but may soon be common.

John

3-27 Common Chickweed

 3-27

Common Chickweed favors disturbed soils. Look for it in gardens and fallow fields. There are at least 6 species that can be found in our area.

John

3-26 Beaked Hazel

 3-26

Beaked Hazel is opening its tiny scarlet flowers. although easily overlooked they are worth searching for.

John

3-25 Mouse-ear Cress

 3-24

Mouse-ear Cress - another early flowering winter annual - is opening its tiny
blossoms.

This species, Arabidopsis thaliana, is famous being the first vascular plant for which the entire genome was sequenced.

John

3-22 Hepatica and Kingfisher

 3-22

Hepaticas are opening a few flowers.

In Brattleboro a Kingfisher posed for a picture and I saw, but did not get a picture of a Phoebe!

John

3-21 Silver Maples and Spring Whitlow Grass

 3-21

Both Silver Maples and Spring Whitlow Grass were flowering today.

Whitlow Grass sometimes behaves as a winter annual starting its growth - and even flowering - in the fall, and continuing it whenever the top inch of soil is thawed and snow free.

John

3-17 Chipmunk

 3-17

Chipmunk mating season is starting. Last year my earliest sighting was on 3 -11.

John

3-12 Myrtle

 3-12

Myrtle, another early flowering alien, has opened one blossom where a ledge acts as a solar reflector.

John

3-10 Coltsfoot

 3-10

Although not native and - by some - not very highly regarded, Coltsfoot adds a welcome touch of color to late winter ditches.

John